CTF - Capture The Flag!

pauhi · Post by **pauhi** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:43 am

Lately we've been playing some AQ2 CTF cw's with RiidanKylväjät, mut it seems that _many_ people don't even know what it is!

For example, scenario like this occurred couple of times:
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[pauhi1]: 3on3 ctf?
[@lucky_star]: vs rk?
[pauhi1]: jep
[@lucky_star]: ctf?
[pauhi1]: capture the flag
[@lucky_star]: no aq2
[@lucky_star]: shal we play aq2?

and few times we actually managed to get opponent to the server, and they were like "WTF? What are these flags? We need to change server BLABLABLA*insert norwegian / swedish text here*".

CTF aka Capture The Flag is funny AQ2-"Mod" where 2 teams try to steal each others flag and take it to their base, you can kill the flag carrier and return your own flag to your base if he has it. When you steal another teams flag, you'll have to carry it to your own base, and your flag has to be in place. Each map is played 2x 10 minutes (both teams play red and blue because the flag spawns aren't always that fair).

You can put CTF on at clanservers with these few commands:
rcon matchmode 0
rcon ctf 1
rcon urban2 (for example, best ctf map imo;)
+ I also suggest you put roundtimelimit off.

So I'd like to know what do people think about CTF? I think it's great alternation for normal teamplay sometimes.

http://tuoppi.laatikko.org/flags/ <- List of maps with flags atm (hifi and imeiz have set up flags into several other maps too, I wish I could remember which ones :D
I'll ask imeiz to post them here.

My sleepy thoughts :)

Post by **Den** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:38 am

I just dont like ctf for aq2, mayby its because i played q2ctf all the time or mayby the aq2 maps arnt good for ctf

grapple!

blissard · Post by **blissard** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:55 am

Couldn't agree more, ctf is really cool. There was a period when my clan Vigilante 8 played a lot of ctf, just for fun, usually against ourselves (and some against iN?). I liked the constant action/no waiting-thing, and found that i played twice as good in ctf as in a normal cw, where i got all nervous and stuff

We had some problems with the skins not being forced, so each person had to manually change his skin each time we played. There probably is a way to fix this though.

I personally made a lot of maps into ctf-maps by adding coordinates to the flags, but i think those files are long gone. I haven't been active in the past 2-3 years, and i doubt i will ever be again, but ctf is still the shit!

maGro · Post by **maGro** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:07 am

ctf pwns. Want more (or atleast any) ctf servers!

angra · Post by **angra** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:27 am

ctf is quite fun.

Well i can put up a server if ppl wants one.

Commu · Post by **Commu** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:56 am

Well I think CTF is pretty neat, but you need like CTF maps to play it. Normal TP maps suck at CTF... so plz wizardext pauhi and all mappers do some CTF maps now!

angra · Post by **angra** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:04 am

Tjt is realy fun ctf, we played alot at MI lan.

sCrewFace · Post by **sCrewFace** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:07 am

CTF is cool indeed.. But its not fun with 8vs8.. So if some1 makes a CTF plz consider maxplayers 10 or 8.. And then make 2 servers instead

Post by **Clown** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:05 am

3v3 CTF is fucking stupid.

Alien · Post by **Alien** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:08 am

First of all, it needs CTF maps where teams spawn is from same place like 10 sec running away from the flag and so on, and then there should be nice jumps in maps and so on. CTF needs a fucking much doing before it can be VERY WELL playable.

And the map should be same for both teams.

if you are making CTF maps, plz ask ppl to test it vvvvvery much.

Post by **Clown** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:31 am

Or you can both take 10mins each as both sides.

pauhi · Post by **pauhi** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:23 am

Clown wrote:3v3 CTF is fucking stupid.

I know, we just wanted a match and all people were looking for only 3on3 cws :>

maGro · Post by **maGro** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:38 pm

aaaalright. First of all if anyone puts maxclients 10 on a server i kick his nuts. ctf is fun above 6on6, and its up to the map to make this possible. we just need a good ctf map (like 2fort5), and we can get them from weapons factory afaik (the q2 version of teamfortress)

It was perfect balanced and im sure it will pwn in aq2 either, since classes could be compared with the weapons.

So... lets get it on.

Tupe23 · Post by **Tupe23** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:07 am

CTF is great!

sajh · Post by **sajh** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:35 am

what annoys me the most about aq2-ctf however is the spawns.. i dont like the fact that you can spawn all over the map more or less, could spawn right next to the enemys flag, thus getting it no matter how good their defence is. If you would only spawn at the spawn nearest to your own flag (or the closest ones), then aq2-ctf would be more interesting.